Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-20
Of One Of the Most gbeek-
Ing Grimes Ever Gem
mftted in the West
Ths Mssder u NJ. Graham ~ Hes
Hrsband. VITA Emma MeEssy. the
Noted EvanxsIiss. aad her
Dasghtsr, Cora Lee. - A.
ssssories - the cEfne.


v0man seHfaRs. The vsncoagsE core.
sposdeut Of he Psrtie1d orsqesfas
FeesnlIy expressed some do1bs ss 20 Be-
q1asl1ssaioaa for Felizi0us Nosk, whera
upon TIE ksg. John r. Tbompson. 81
The Presbyterian Church Ia Vanasuveg
and TIE Rev. y. n. skidnore. o. %.
hethodlgt Caafsh there, FASTENED 70 d
feDd Der and 20 declare 10 The Oyeqsssar
that - pr cent. u the Chgiesiaa pso
PIE Of Vancouver" agreed With fherr
abouf THE eyanQeiiss's sperfeaf limo
oence Of any crime aeainst God o. man. >
The name Of Mrs. Emua MoIIox
recalls one o. the most ahoektne
erime for whfsh her fcsier-daa9hteF
nov awsits trial and for which Der for.
mef Assoetats IN rsiigioas work. Geo. T.
Graham, Haa hsneed By 3 mob Ons yesl
aeo. IL 10 3 curious fact thas IN no pam
o. ne esnntfy sFs religious professions
sd eimnlsted rsliRious fsFvor more
eaectisely ased a. sIoak for atrssions
criminal tendenoiss and acts than In
bouthsFn Missouri. Ons Of tie leaders
e she Infamous basd Of thugs called
Bald knobbers IL . Baptlst preacher,
ans several Of bis fellow asaaasins ere
membeFs 81 bic ehurcb. n vas in
houtheFn Miseouri that Sarah Graham
vns murdered IN September, 1885, ana
81 Mrs. noiioy's faFm.
George y. Graham. one Of Mrs Mol
loyis aesoeiatea. had served two tsrusa.
one OF 6ye years and the other 81 two.
- sbe Indiana State Penitentiary, Oar
ina the erst term bis wife eavah.
procured . divorce from him. Ia 1873.
after bis release, as Der relatives testify.
TIE tSo were married again. Before
that re-anion be sought Mrs. Mollsv.
1t Was natural be Should cling 10 me. -
she Wfete 10 q letter watch spReass 10
bevs been publishsd BE- her counsel
for ] was The oaiy one 10 whom be
could pour ont bis heart. He talked 20
roe abons bis wife aud children 10 Fort
Wayne.' After the - unien The Gra.
hsma lived With Mrs. Moilov ahd her
fcsteF-dsnRhfeF. Cora Lee. NFa. Mol.
10y, tban, ~ nov, IN evangelist, was
eopnected With q paper called the
Morning and Day of Reform. She
bought this paper 10 order that Graham
might BE- employed ~ ita business man
ageF, and the entire party moved 10 4
iittis town IL Northern Kansas. Por.
lions Of the letter 70 which ua have re-.
ferred are Published in the OregsHSaa.
II II Mrs. MoIloy says; "we bad Mr..
sarah Graham and her two children IN
the family With az, making nine 10 al
70 ne supported BY nv earnings. Final.
y tne paper failed. sent George and
bis family back 10 Fort Wayne. He was
~ Fort WAYNE bot a little while when
Be vFote 10 me for heip. He and Cora,
my eldest foster-daaghteF had been
associated together In the Office, and
had grown fond Of each 0sheE--ao nneh
80 that when George left 10 20 back 10
Fort Wayne Der life Was despaired OF.
Bot her love for him vas as pare ana
true A. 81 angel"
Il appears that Mrs. Graham, con.
WINGED that Der husband was uufaitbful.
remained eith her relatives In Indiana
ana that Graham continued TO be aaao.
eiaaed with Mrs. Molloy and her
daughter. 10 1875 she svanpeIists were
AZ work In Missouri and Kansas. ana
their headquarters we're az farm owned
BY Mrs. Molloy, Ave miles from Spring.
held. No. On Jnly IS. 1885, Graham
was married 10 Cora Lee 10 Springfield
a few months later the original Mrs..
Graham disappeared. She hsd last
been seen 10 Springfield, n which place
she bad come from Fort Wayne on Sep
tembeF 20. 1885, With her children.
Graham bad met her NJ ~. Louis. aud
his 500 testified that vhen the party Ar
rived 81 Springfield Graham and his
wife left the children At hotel, Graham
saying that the mother woald walk with
him 10 The Molloy farm.
That was Sarah 0rRharn's last Jour.
ney. She Vas murdered that night on
the road 20 the Moiiov farm. Four
months later. after Graham had been
arrested fof blRamy. her friends began
20 look for her. Her body vas found in
40 old well 0B the Molioy farm. A
Oofnnss's jury found that her husband
bad killed her and that Emma MolloV
and Cora Lee are accessories" Al the
end Of The preliminary examination tbs
Court held that Cora I4se vas an Acees.
sorry before the fact and that Mrs.
Molloy vas an accessory after the fact
aad the iattaF Vas held 10 $4,000 10 await
The action Of q Grand Jury.
Graham confessed his guilt and
undertook TO rrotect the too women
BOT Ne declared that be bad killed bis
wife With knife, while an examination
showed that she had beon shot. The
thsorv OF the prosecution vas that Cora
Lee vas hts partner In the crime. and Il
vas shown that on the night when the
Graham party arrived 10 Springfield
Cora Isse left the farm in q haegy. and
that Graham and the two women we're
seen that evening in Springfield res
tanfant. On the following morning the
chsldfen we're taken TO the farm aud
were .told that their mother had gone 70
me Paeinc Coast. The testimony Of
the boy Charles Graham. thirteen wears
eld. was important. Both Cora and
Mrs. Molloy had told hin, be said, that
bis mother bad gone West, and that he
must say that be had last seen her in
e Louis. A sign hoard vss eel no on
The farm. near the cid cell. immediately
after the murder, warning OF all tres
passern
For three moatbs. while Sarah Ora.
hams bady vas lvinS there, Mrs. Moi.
ioy, Cora and Graham are saia 20 have
passed the spot daily In canning frou,
and ecine 10 the scene % their religions
laborN. which are aid q have eanse.i
the conversion Of Hundreds Of persons.
Graham YES taken from the county
jail on Apsil "a. 1885, and hanged by a
lxnehtnr party, A. last accounts Cora
lee vas still in fail Ia Jnne last ths
indictments against Mira Motley we're
quashed, and she rrsnmad her religious
Wora. The orreestsa rapnhlishes a
part Of Charles Graham'e testimony, ta
The effect that his father lived 10 adnl-
terry with both Cora Lee ard Mrs Mol
10y In Kansas. even before Mrs Graham
departed for Indiana. ana alsa nj the
farm in Missouri. after Mrs. Graham
had been murdered.
Even II q shsnid Be eonelusively
shown THAI Mrs. Motley hsd NO knnui
edge Of the murder-and 10 seems 10 be
admitted that the eyideace doca not
warrant her prosecution 1.-THE facts tend
90 prove that she u cot veil htasd Cor
the work % revivalist II u b.
claimed that Graham DAD nos rernartv
bis Ore, wife. Il follows that be wAs !iv
tne eth her 80 violation ~ The laws %
God aud man while ia 4 - Malicy =
hoose h. kzHssG ard wiih Mrs. Moliay's
consent. ard While Mrs. Mstioy vas
conscious 81 hes daughters sroutne
love for bin. Ga the other hard, IL
Graham DID remarFy hes hFst wffe, how
can Mr4. Mollpy defend hsF eanrse Il,
sAnetsonicg Der daughters hieAnaas
MARRIAGE Boa II Charles Graham
testimony Vas trss u ovvtshsdsus such
questions - thees.
VA uEAssF sCRAVCnEs HJs NAaE.